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We present two criticisms of the reported violations of local realism in atomic cascade experiments. Firstly, we show that physically reasonable local-hidden variable models can reproduce within errors the results of those experiments. Secondly, we show that photon rescattering in the beam is important for the experiments reported to violate Bell’s inequality.
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Marshall, T.W., Santos, E., Selleri, F. (1985). On the Compatibility of Local Realism with Atomic Cascade Experiments. In: Tarozzi, G., van der Merwe, A. (eds) Open Questions in Quantum Physics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5245-4_7
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